Dr Nicholas Coatsworth
President | Nick Coatsworth was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières - Australia in May 2008 and was elected Vicepresident in May 2009. Then in 2010 he was elected President. He is a Sydney-based doctor who joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 2004. He has worked in the field in Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Sudan in the Darfur region. In the field he has worked as a doctor and field coordinator in areas such as primary healthcare and measles vaccination campaigns. Nick is specialising in respiratory and infectious disease medicine. He will become a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians at the conclusion of 2010. He holds a Masters degree in International Public Health from the University of Sydney. Nick is Conjoint Lecturer in Population Health at the University of Western Sydney where he teaches undergraduate medical students. He has written widely for online and print media and is regularly interviewed about humanitarian issues in Australia. |
Mr Peter Hooker
Treasurer | Peter has been a board member of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia since 2001. He was re-elected May 2006 and again in 2009. He is a finance specialist and small business owner with a background in chemical engineering and investment banking, based in Sydney. Peter has been the treasurer of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia since 2001 before he provided pro bono financial guidance and support to the organisations for over 2 years. |
Ms Emma Timmins
National Vice-President
| Emma Timmins was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières - Australia in 2006. She was re-elected in May 09 and and in May 2010 was elected as National Vice President Emma is a registered nurse who first joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 1999. She has completed four field missions with Médecins Sans Frontières in Kazakhstan, Indonesia (twice) and Ethiopia. She worked as a nurse and field coordinator in these projects with populations affected by meningitis epidemics, TB and malnutrition. Between September 2002 and April 2005 she worked in the Human Resources section of Médecins Sans Frontières - Australia in Sydney. She currently lives in the Blue Mountains with her husband and two children. |
Mr Dino Asproloupos | Dino was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in May 2008. His term ends in May 2011. He worked and volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières in various capacities, mainly in Athens as Project Manager Reintegration in 2002 and as a governance consultant with the Médecins Sans Frontières International Office in Geneva in 2002 and as Project Manager/Acting General Director Médecins Sans Frontières - Greece in 2004. Originally from Zambia, Dino completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Canada. He has worked in the Caribbean, Canada, Spain, Greece and Australia with various organisations. Currently, Dino works for the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Victoria, as International health program advisor and also serves on the board for the Antares Foundation Australia. |
Ms Véronique Avril
International Vice-President
| Véronique Avril was elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia in May 2009.
Véronique is a Member of the Médecins Sans Frontières - France board representing the Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia board in Paris.
Véronique has been involved with Médecins Sans Frontières since 1991, mainly as logistician in Paris in 1991 and then in the field as administrator in Zaire-Rwanda in 1994 and 1995, and Ethiopia in 2008. She was the marketing director of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in 1996 and of Médecins Sans Frontières US in 2001. She was also a member of the audit team for Médecins Sans Frontières Australia France in 2008.
She is currently living in France and working as Project Chief in the municipality of Paris. |
Dr Pauline Horrill | Pauline Horrill was first elected to the board of Médecins Sans Frontières- Australia in May 2002 until May 2005. She was elected again in May 2009. Her tems ends in 2012. Pauline first started with Médecins Sans Frontières in 1998 in Sri Lanka working as a field doctor and then in Yemen and Sierra Leone. She was then field coordinator in Ethiopia, Medical coordinator in Afghanistan and Iran and Emergency co-ordinator for Ethiopia, Sudan and Ivory Coast, then she was working in the MSF Paris office first as Deputy Programme Manager in Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Angola, Afghanistan, Palestine, and then as Programme Manager for Sudan, Tchad, Iran and Sri Lanka. Currently she is living in Wellington, New Zealand, where she works as General Practitioner, and a lecturer University of Otago in the post-graduate study in Refugee and Migrant Health. |
Dr Kamalini Lokuge | Kamalini was elected to the Board in May 2010. Further details to follow soon. |
Ms Jane Coster | Jane Coster was elected to the Board of Médecins Sans Frontières - Australia in 2010.
Jane originally trained as a nurse and a midwife and joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 1995. She completed a number of field missions with Médecins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan, South Sudan (5 missions) Indonesia, China, Sierre Leone and Eritrea, completing her last mission in Zimbabwe in 2002.
She has worked as a nurse/midwife, project coordinator and medical coordinator. Jane holds a post graduate qualification in International Public Health and in International Relations.
In 2003 Jane joined the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, managing several NZ aid programmes in Asia, Africa and humanitarian response.
She currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband and daughter and is visited regularly by her 2 older step daughters. |
